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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §8.2.30.pr-8.2.30.1

Extinction of Servitudes by Merger and Partial Acquisition

Passage 1398 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus explains that when a property subject to a servitude is acquired, the servitude is extinguished by merger, and must be expressly established again if resold. He also discusses how the acquisition of a part of an estate or a usufruct affects the servitude.

[PAULUS libro quinto decimo ad Sabinum. ] §8.2.30.prSi quis aedes, quae suis aedibus seruirent, cum emisset traditas sibi accepit, confusa sublataque seruitus est, et si rursus uendere uult, nominatim imponenda seruitus est: alioquin liberae ueniuunt.
[PAULUS, in the fifteenth book on Sabinus.] If anyone, when he had bought a house which owed a servitude to his own house, received delivery of it, the servitude is merged and extinguished; and if he wishes to sell it again, the servitude must be expressly imposed; otherwise they are sold as free from servitude.
§8.2.30.1Si partem praedii nactus sim, quod mihi aut cui ego seruiam, non confundi seruitutem placet, quia pro parte seruitus retinetur.
If I should acquire a part of an estate which owes a servitude to me, or to which I owe a servitude, it is held that the servitude is not merged, because the servitude is retained in proportion to the share.
Itaque si praedia mea praediis tuis seruiant et tuorum partem mihi et ego meorum partem tibi tradidero, manebit seruitus.
Therefore, if my estates should owe a servitude to your estates, and you deliver a part of yours to me and I deliver a part of mine to you, the servitude will remain.
Item usus fructus in alterutris praediis adquisitus non interrumpit seruitutem.
Likewise, a usufruct acquired in either of the estates does not interrupt the servitude.

Notes

  1. 8.2.30.prsuis aedibus — The reflexive possessive adjective suis, although located within the subordinate relative clause, refers back to the subject of the main clause, quis (i.e., "his own house").
  2. 8.2.30.prueniuunt — Third-person plural present indicative of the irregular verb ueneo (to be sold, to go on sale). Active in form but passive in meaning, it should not be confused with forms of uenio (to come).
  3. 8.2.30.1quod mihi aut cui ego seruiam — Asymmetrical shift in the case of the relative pronoun and the subject of the verb. In the first part quod mihi, the verb seruiat is implied (with the estate as the subject: "which owes a servitude to me"), whereas in the second part cui ego seruiam, the relative pronoun is in the dative cui and the subject switches to ego ("to which I owe a servitude"). Both refer back to the antecedent praedii.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §8.2.30.pr-8.2.30.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:8.2.30.pr-8.2.30.1

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